• Provision of a full HR Advisory service including; recruitment & selection, contracts of employment, disciplinaries, grievances and appeals, absence management, policies and procedures, performance issues, training and development.• Designed and delivered recruitment training seminar• Conducted one to one coaching sessions, and written reports for capability case• Managing a member of staff.

• Recruitment & Selection (Compiling & placing adverts, shortlisting, arranging interviews, candidate correspondence)• Contracts of Employment (Compiling all contracts & contract packs for new starts, writing all change of terms letters/role changes/promotions/salary reviews)• Disciplinaries, Grievances & Appeals (Advising & coaching mgrs on case by case basis, production of documentation, conducting & supporting investigations, attending hearings, writing all correspondence with employee)• Absence Management (Advising & coaching mgrs on each case, hosting investigation meetings with employees, requesting GP & Occupational Health reports, writing all correspondence, managing to a return to work, phased/adjusted return or dismissal.• Redundancies (Advising & coaching mgrs on each case, conducting all staff meetings, production of all correspondence to employees, calculating redundancy pay & related benefits, managing exits).• Policies & Procedures (Wrote staff handbook & Managers guidelines handbook. Wrote family friendly policies and Maternity booklet, wrote all employee letters. Wrote and updated policies & procedures as required or with changes in legislation.• TUPE (Advised & coached Directors & CEO on both incoming & outgoing TUPE transfers. Managed all communications to staff, wrote correspondence to staff and compiled all documentation• Tribunal Cases (Received and dealt with all Tribunal applications on behalf of the company. Average of 4 applications per annum. Liaise with lawyers and produced all documentation.• Performance Issues (Advising & coaching mgrs on each case, wrote capability procedure, attended all capability review meetings, wrote all correspondence & documentation as required, achieving change in performance or dismissal due to capability.• Training & Development (Wrote & delivered basics of employment law workshops for directors, CEO and line managers.)

Responsibilities:• Manage team of 10 HR staff (Located in 2 sites, oversee their work, problem solve, coach & advise, keep team morale up & communications open).• Recruitment & Selection (Compiling & placing adverts, shortlisting, arranging interviews, advise and chair interview panel, appoint successful candidate.• Performance Mgt (Advise managers on each case, hold meetings with staff & managers, compile performance improvement plans, follow up meetings & improve performance or dismiss due to capability/conduct.)• Disciplinaries, Grievances & Appeals (Advise managers on each case, hold meetings and produce all correspondence with staff, take notes at meeting, assist managers on outcomes and dismiss if necessary.Projects & Achievements• Built credibility of the Human Resource Function within a scientific environment that I had no previous experience of.• Identified fraudulent behaviour incident which led to positive outcome.• Recruitment of approx 50+ staff throughout the country into key roles.• Managed of Breach of Contract case load • Large Scale Change management Project whilst working with senior management to enable quite a large amount of change to an organisation unaccustomed to any change.

Projects & Achievements• Successfully implemented HR department (No previous HR support. Set up everything, wrote staff handbook, contact pack, application pack, all HR/Staff letters, policies & procedures, handbooks, forms, and educated/advised/coached Directors, Line Managers and Staff on them. • Building credibility quickly (Gained the opportunity early on to advise and coach through some highly sensitive disciplinary cases.)• Recruitment & Change (Staff count increased from 65 to 165 in my period with the organisation.) • Managed staff

I provided a full HR Advisory service for the Barclay’s bank contract in which staff wereemployed on back office processes for Barclay’s bank.

• Provision of HR Business Partner style support to over 1,500 staff and management, employed in all the companies locations.• Recruitment organised recruitment open nights in Derby, Manchester & Glasgow, established university liaison with 3 targeted universities, organised and ran graduate assessment centres in Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow, compiled major advertising campaigns, represented the company at professional and graduate recruitment fairs, shortlisted candidates, conducted interviews and produced recruitment reports.• Employment law expert attended local update seminars, wrote new procedures and policies, produced briefing documents for employees, advised and coached line management and directors, advised and coached line managers on absence & performance management issues, disciplinaries, promotions, contracts, salaries, appraisals, overseas contracts, site secondments etc.• Company acquisitions During my time with the Group we acquired three companies. The largest of had 450 staff TUPE transfer into our company. I carried our redundancy consultations, harmonisation of contracts and the naturalisation of all three into Babtie Group.• Introduction of new policies & procedures Across the Group introduced a new Graduate• recruitment procedure, a revised recruitment procedure, issued and up-dated handbook, introduced a flexible benefits system and finalised a manager’s procedures manual.